Sunday, July 5, 2015

WHAT IS A PERFECT CANDIDATE?

Larry’s blog
for July 6, 2015As the list of
Republican candidates for President grows, so does my curiosity about
them.As has been stated by many, there
is no such thing as a perfect candidate, so you pay attention to the ones that
most mirror your thinking.Right now
everybody is throwing out catch-phrases and sound bites to get on the news, and
it’s difficult, at least to me, to know what their true belief system is…except
for one or two.

Were I candidate, there would be
very short speeches, but my positions would be crystal clear…a complete
change in the tax system…a strong, smart, military…take the offensive action to
the enemy wherever they are and eliminate them…a sealed
southern border…a systematic deportation of illegal aliens…term limits
for all
federal positions on a national level…no lobbying allowed…all
potential bills must be shorter than 200 pages and no riders or attachments allowed.There probably would be others, as time went
by, but you can see where it’s going.America has to come back from where it’s been put, or the world will
suffer.

What would the world be like if, or
when, America has to surrender?To what would
it surrender?Economically, we may have
already surrendered, what with the dollar being replaced as the go-to backup
currency in the world.Militarily, we
may have already surrendered, since it’s been said by top military personnel,
that we could not fight a long war, possibly on two fronts or foreign lands.Politically we definitely have surrendered
with a lying, incompetent, possibly foreign-born person in the White House
whose elections have been made possible by smear campaigns and massive voter
fraud, and whose background is opaque.

Once, when I thought I would run for
Mayor of the city in which I lived, one of my opponents(the ultimate winner)
said that I didn’t have an original thought in my head…and, to a degree he was
right.My reply was to say that so many
people, much smarter than I, had already said good things that we didn’t pay
any attention to, that it was a shame.Here is one of those things, a speech by Teddy Roosevelt, and he said…

“There
is no
room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated
Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best
Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad.
But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.This is just as true of the man who puts
“native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or
French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the
soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must
unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.But if he is heartily and singly loyal to
this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American
as anyone else.

The
one absolutely
certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all
possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to
become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of
German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans,
Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate
nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that
nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.The men who do not become Americans and
nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them
in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet
shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays
a thoroughly
mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here;
and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real
heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.”

Theodore
Roosevelt, addressing the Knights of Columbus, New York City- October 12th,
1915.Folks, it doesn’t get any clearer
than that.If you ask a black person
what he or she is, chances are good that they will tell you they are
African-American.If you quiz them about
what part of Africa they came from you’ll find out that they didn’t come from
Africa at all!Any immigrant, legal or
illegal, that finds this country’s traditions and values offensive should be
shipped out, PDQ, to whatever place they seem to prefer.